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Tier 6 coupon or 1000 Lobi - what is your choice?
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Having finished the requirements today i am faced with the choice between either a coupon for a T6 ship + 200 lobi or 1000 lobi.
Not sure which i shall choose at this time. Which of these did you choose (and which ship)?
Not sure which i shall choose at this time. Which of these did you choose (and which ship)?
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But that depends on your interpretation of worth and how much you value it. Also I look at it from a biased point of view since I have all the T6 ships in the cstore available to my faction I desire and I also have two maybe 3 T6 coupons already.
Think of it as long term vs short term investment. If there is a single T6 ship in the store you want and actually is available to be purchased with this token then the immediate purchase would have more value. Where as the lobi no matter what will purchase any ship that becomes available for lobi immediately without an exclusion. So if they release a stunning t6 ship in the lobi store you can purchase it without restrictions.
Also you can use the lobi to get a few exclusive items that aren't available any other way or as a stand in for EC for a ship you can't afford right now but you need to finish a set s you can get a certain effect or a certain pet.
The lobi purchases are only for a single character though.
That said the plasma storm console is very tempting with my science heavy builds.
Decisions 2x.
Still interested in what others opted for and for which reasons.
I do not get alot of single char ships, due to the fact that they arent account unlock ships.
I would sooner make my free ship a c-store ship.
The 1,000 could be spent on numerous items that are Bound to Character that you will not find on the Exchange. Also, if you have trouble amassing more than a Billion EC, you may be able to pick up one of those Promotion Ships that they add to the Lobi Store for a Weekend. They will, when added, cost 960 Lobi.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Completely agreed.
While it's absolutely true that the Lobi is far more valuable, the answer to the question depends on the player. For a long time player or a player with a fair assortment of C-Store ships, the Lobi is the best option.
If I'm a new player though, the choice is likely different. If I didn't own any C-Store ships and I was looking to start building up my ships to optimize their output then I would use the Coupon on a T6 ship like the Arbiter that has a trait that would benefit my entire account (at least on the Fed/Fed Rom side.) As I said in another thread, my path if I were new would be use the Coupon on the Arbiter, get the trait and then use the reputation fleet modules on a Gagarin.
For me, a player with a wide assortment of C-Store ships with access to pretty much all past event items the Lobi Option was a pure 'no brainer.' This however, doesn't mean the obvious choice for me applies to everyone.
On that topic though.. I advise people carefully consider what they do with their Lobi. The temptation is to grab a shiny ship for 900 Lobi, but that's not necessarily the best option. Remember, these ships are all available on the exchange for a few hundred million. There are some nice items in the Lobi store that are bound on pick up and cannot be obtained any other way but Lobi. Some examples are ground gear like the Discovery Rifle, Herald Staff, Boolean Cannon etc. You also have some great space gear like Bio-Neural Infusion Circuits, Tachyokinetic Converter, The Altamid Swarm set, and a few others. None of these items can be purchased with EC, you can only get them with Lobi.. an otherwise very expensive currency.
Think carefully before you use 900 of that precious currency on a ship you an buy off the exchange with a little time and EC grinding. A Lobi ship might seem like the obvious option.. but in my opinion, that is not the way to go.
personally I hope they do this or something like it again.
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I have to agree as well.
For example, my primary toon would benefit most from the Lobi at it is always best because there is so much more for her to do with it. After all she has most ships in game and I never really fly them more than enough to level and sadly all of the really good ships I would be inclined on using for other toons are single toon which really sucks. I have purchased all but 6 of the ships in the Z Store just to support Cryptic and will get those soon enough but I never use them at all.
I try very hard to think of it as a very expensive subscription fee which is why I get so vexed with the tech support and its inability to solve issues or even give me back lost resources. They really should be kissing my backside to say the least given how much I waste on this game but sadly there are no others I like and I loathe F2P as a business model. Nonetheless I'm a 50 year ST fan and Cryptics version of F2P is better than most all things considered so I cope until there is another ST MMO option available for me to support but I digress...
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Sold a lobi ship, made a killing on exchange, finally got my Kelvin Destroyer.
As Seth Green from the obnoxious Rally's commercial from the early 90's would say
CHING!
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Now I just wait for a Lobi sale to get some of the consoles and costumes for my side characters.
I plan to buy a Tachyokinetic Converter and Bioneural Infusion Circuits for my Tac.
I also want to give my Tac the Wells Uniform.
Both my Tac and Sci will get the Borg Exoskeletal Frame.
My Eng is main and has all of that already.
During a 30% sale that is 700 lobi, as I have 1,2k I still got room to equip either my Klingon or my Romulan with the same.
I tend to go with the Klingon.
My event store is greyed out and even though I have enough tokens to finish another event it does not give me an option to buy the "entire" campaign. Thanks!
I've just done the daily thing every day. I didn't use any tokens or buyouts. I can't remember if there were any double credit weekends early on.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Yeah, that's the key: keep doing the daily even after you get that event's prize. You still get campaign credit plus bonus dilithium.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Yes, campaign process is awarded each mission/day. So even after you get the reward for each individual event, you can keep getting campaign progress as long as the even is active.
And if you aren't sure what you want...wait for a sale
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
For the record, Arizona is, RP wise, actually a Fleet of Fog battleship, so themeaticly the Vengeance fits her. Also if Cryptic figures out how to account unlock lockbox/lobi ships, my Feds are pretty well set.
Would have loved to work towards a Disco D7 for my KDF. Would be a great upgrade from her Blackguard, but... with everyone getting Lobi ships the market kinda crashed a bit. Well... its a project I guess.
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I very much have to agree with that.
And knowing is half the battle!
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How delightfully hypocritical of you considering all the flak you have given others over the years for doing this very thing.
That was my thinking aswell. But it was a close thing, REALLY wanted to get a lobi ship to make EC to buy a D7 but the consoles are worth far more in the long run and was able to get full altamid set aswell.